AlphaZen 2

This program was designed to make things easier for those working with Poser and other 3D rendering programs.

AlphaZen is a great utility for everyone who works with texturing of 3D objects. Whether it's about making textures for trees' leaf plates, transparency maps, for Poser clothes and lingerie, or for alpha billboards, whenever alpha mapping is involved, AlphaZen is an invaluable assistant. It automatically reads the alpha channel out of TGA and TIF files and writes it as an independent bitmap file. Intensive texture workers will just love AlphaZen's batch function. What before used to take several tedious steps in Photoshop or similar large programs, can now be performed quickly just by calling up your AlphaZen. Having alpha written as a separate bitmap file guarantees 100% compatibility of your 3D files when moved across applications and operating systems, especially with those programs that don't offer an extensive support of the various graphic formats. AlphaZen makes the texture artist's life easier, and it's the little but performing utility that many 3D users always dreamed of having in their artistic arsenal.

With this upgrade, AlphaZen2 has had a major interface upgrade, and many new features, moreover AlphaZen 2 now includes the functions of BumpZen, so you can do it all from within one small program.

AlphaZen2 can extract RGB channels from graphics files without alpha channels, as noted in the picture above, and can save as JPG in addition to BMP, you are no longer limited to only BMP as with version 1.

When extracting alpha channels, you can process multiple files in a folder, with AlphaZen's batch ability.

Here is a picture's alpha channel, ready to save or cancel. It is automatically flipped if this needs to be done, although you can do it yourself for special purposes. If you need black on white, you can invert the image as well. Opens uncompressed TIF and TGA, saves as BMP.

This screen cap shows the options when extracting channels for use as bump, transparency or displacement maps, or other uses.

B/W will convert the selected channel to pure black on white, while W/B will do the opposite.